Can I monitor multiple competitor funds at once?

Yes. Set up separate watchers for each fund's portfolio companies, or use the Company Search API to filter by multiple investor names in one query. Most teams track three to five competitor funds.

What signals indicate a follow-on round is coming?

The most reliable public signals are sustained headcount growth above 25% over six months, leadership hires in finance or operations, and a spike in engineering job postings. The Watcher API can alert you on each of these.

How fresh is the growth data?

Company data is enriched live from 15+ sources at query time. Headcount, job postings, and funding data reflect what is true today, not a quarterly snapshot.

How much does it cost to monitor a competitor fund's portfolio?

Company search is 1 credit per 100 results. Watcher alerts are 1 credit per event. Most VC teams monitoring three to five competitor portfolios spend $500 to $2,000 per month.

Spot competitor fund moves before press releases.

You learn about competitor fund activity from press coverage weeks after rounds close. Monitor competitor portfolio companies for growth signals, new hires, and funding changes in real time.

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You track your own portfolio daily but only learn about competitor activity from press announcements weeks later.

Funding announcements tell you what already happened.

By the time TechCrunch or Pitchbook publishes the round, the term sheet is signed and the money is wired. The signals that predicted the round, hiring velocity, headcount growth, leadership additions, were visible weeks before the announcement.

You monitor your portfolio. Nobody monitors theirs.

Sector-level pattern recognition requires structured data, not alerts.

You track your own portfolio daily but only learn about competitor activity from press announcements weeks later.

Funding announcements tell you what already happened.

You monitor your portfolio. Nobody monitors theirs.

Sector-level pattern recognition requires structured data, not alerts.

You track your own portfolio daily but only learn about competitor activity from press announcements weeks later.

Funding announcements tell you what already happened.

You monitor your portfolio. Nobody monitors theirs.

Sector-level pattern recognition requires structured data, not alerts.

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You learn about competitor investments from press announcements, weeks or months late

Search all companies backed by a specific fund and track their growth in real time

Checking a competitor’s portfolio means visiting ten websites and three databases

Filter by investor name and sort by headcount growth, funding date, or hiring velocity

You notice a sector trend after two competitor funds announce investments

Watch portfolio companies for hiring spikes, headcount thresholds, and leadership changes

Follow-on round signals go unnoticed until the round closes

Get a webhook when a portfolio company crosses a growth threshold that typically precedes a follow-on

Search every company a competitor fund has backed

Filter by investor name. The API returns every matching company with live headcount, funding, hiring, and growth metrics.

crunchbase_investors filter

growth_6m_percent sort

open_jobs

1 credit per 100 results.

Get alerted when a competitor portfolio company hits a growth threshold

Set a watcher on a competitor fund's portfolio companies. You receive a webhook when headcount crosses a threshold, new leadership joins, or hiring spikes in a key function.

company_headcount_growth

investors field

signal description

1 credit per event delivered.